From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eriberto Subject: Ext3: changes to increase the speed? Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:11:18 -0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49813 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933281AbXDAPPG (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 11:15:06 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HY1lm-0006rC-OY for linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:15:02 +0200 Received: from 201.22.141.102.adsl.gvt.net.br ([201.22.141.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:15:02 +0200 Received: from eriberto by 201.22.141.102.adsl.gvt.net.br with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:15:02 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hello all, I tested ext3 performance recently and the results were very good. I used a script to create 40.000 files into ext3 partition and the speed was 4 seconds. One year before, the result was 55 seconds. Which the cause of this speed increase? PS: I used Debian Etch. Thanks in advance! Eriberto - Brazil